A look toward the new year

I’ve started to set a personal agenda for 2009. Yeah yeah yeah, it’s not quite a “New Years Resolution” list, more like a project plan. I’m tending toward treating most things like a project plan now, so just bear w/ me. okies?

Health

Everyone’s favorite New Year’s Resolution. I want to take better care of myself and have more control over my various ailments (t2d, hypothyroidism, etc).

Charity

I had a very moving Christmas by forgoing any “material” gift and instead giving, what I would have spent, to a local charity. I don’t know if I should look at these as “gifts” and “donations” or as “investments”. I’ll have a post later about this, but I decided to have a pet charity in 2009, where I’m investing time and money. I know we’re in this middle of a big financial problem, but this is the time people less fortunate than we are, need help more than ever.

Work

I’m very fortunate to have a good job for a good company. I’m also very fortunate to have some upcoming projects in 2009: Chattarati, GreenInk and a few others. Chattarati has grown so much in the past months that sometimes it’s overwhelming. GreenInk…it’s another hyper-local project…more later.

2008 was such a long year, lots of projects and lots of events and still….it was all-in-all good. Realism sets in and we never know what serendipitous twists might happen. As long as I can look forward to the good and maneuver around the bad, it’s gonna be ok.

Home at last

So, if you’ve been following me on Twitter, you might caught on that I’ve been moving into a house. This is my & my wife’s first house in our 7.5 years of marriage, and it’s one we’re gonna call our own.

As we thought, it was our easiest moves between the apartments and our townhouse. First off, it’s nice not having two levels. Plus, we really don’t have a lot of large things. In looking in our “triage” today, I think it really set in that we have a lot of junk….stuff we won’t miss.

In the move from our two bedroom 1st place, to our one bedroom 2nd place, we both sold, trashed, etc lots of furniture, drums, or for a lesser term: “crap”. We didn’t really accumulate much more, we trashed and replaced couches and beds, but we never really had a lot of room either way.

Saturday was the real test. Long day, two people moving all of their stuff, largest truck I’ve ever driven and just a really tiring day. Sometimes, we pushed each other when we were ready to quit, but it was a real joy and real work and it was much much later when the brevity of the situation happened. I sat on my couch and looked around the room and it really hit me, “this is our place”. I will admit, the last thing we unloaded was my bike and even though I was very tired, I took a victory lap around the property. I wish I had some photos so I can show that even though we were sweaty, tired and bruised, we were smiling.

So today, Sunday, we’re unpacking boxes, hooking up electronics and just…well, moving in. We still have a couple of rooms to deal with and trying to figure out how to get our cats better acclimated to the situation. We did get to sleep in, 9, and it was just nice waking up to our trees and grass and seeing the sun peak through the windows.